Art 365

Art 365 is an exhibition from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition which offers five Oklahoma artists a year and $12,000 to create innovative artwork in collaboration with a nationally recognized curator. The artists work with a guest curator for one year to create a body of original artwork for the exhibition.

Through Art 365, Oklahoma artists create innovative artwork in collaboration with a nationally recognized curator. Every three years, OVAC accepts artistic proposals for an upcoming Art 365 exhibition.

The five awarded artists each receive a $12,000 honorarium. Once selected, the artists work with the curator over one year to create a body of original artwork for the exhibition, meeting with the curator multiple times throughout the exhibition preparation. Through studio visits and regular communications, the artists and curator discuss direction, examine progress and finalize the concept and presentation. Visual artists working in all media are eligible to submit, including traditional studio art media as well as film and new media.

2017 Art 365 Curator
Dana Turkovic is curator of exhibitions at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis. In 2005, Turkovic received her Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College-University of London in curatorial studies and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Webster University, St. Louis in 1998. Turkovic has organized exhibitions in Athens, Los Angeles, and New York, in alternative spaces in London and Oxford and in St. Louis at the Contemporary Art Museum, Boots Contemporary Art Space, Ellen Curlee Gallery, Hunt Gallery, Schmidt Contemporary Art and White Flag Projects and is co-curator of Isolation Room/Gallery Kit. recent projects include the first mid-career survey in the United States of Bosnian photographer and filmmaker Danica Dakić that opened in 2015 and an outdoor commission for Delhi based artists Raqs Media Collective and Gigi Scaria both working with the Creative India Foundation. Turkovic is also a co-curator for Moving Image Festival 2015 at Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town. She has written for publications such as Art US, Review and St. Louis Magazine.

Art 365 2014 ArtistsBryan Cook
Exploring remote portions of our National Parks and wilderness areas, Cook will photograph these pristine locations and print the photographs large scale. He seeks to raise awareness of these areas, so inciting a love affair which can lead to further preservation efforts. Balancing the difficulty of hiking to these remote areas – encountering physical, mental and emotional challenges – with a love of the land, Cook captures places and moments that most will never experience with their own eyes.

Cathleen Faubert
Scents bring back memories. Aromas surprise and intrigue us. Motivated to explore the role of smell in our experience of places, Faubert will collect and distill material from five of Oklahoma’s distinct eco-regions. Previously working primarily in photography, Faubert has trained her nose so she can translate her experiences of Oklahoma through fragrances. In her research, Faubert has taken workshops from national olfactory experts, visited the first-ever scent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and developed a laboratory that would be the envy of many scientists.

Eyakem Gulilat
As an Ethiopian immigrant to Oklahoma, Gulilat observed the abundant presence of churches in the state and grew curious about the racial, political and socioeconomic relationships within and around churches. Using aerial photography, he will document church buildings and their surrounding neighborhoods on Sunday mornings, considering what they can tell us about ourselves, our patterns, and relationships.

Alexandra Knox
Alexandra Knox’s recent artwork has focused on discovering and preserving Ukrainian traditions through food. Exploring her heritage as a third generation Ukrainian-American, Knox traveled to the Ukraine to meet family members, conduct research, and gather artifacts. Faced with challenges such as language barriers and generational differences, Knox returned more confused about her Ukrainian heritage than ever before. Through food, installation and performance, Knox will investigate further her cultural identity and family history.

Romy Owens
“What would my life be like if I had made different decisions?” “How will the decisions I make now impact my future?” These are questions that Romy Owens contemplates as she knits, stitch by stitch, a room-sized yarn installation. Spurred by her own musings about what life would have been like had she been a mother, Owens creates a warm, safe space for the audience to feel nurtured. Her time-intensive process corresponds to her invitation for visitors to reflect on their own life decisions.

2014 Guest Curator
Raechell Smith is the chief curator and founding director of the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute. A dynamic contemporary art venue with a strong teaching mission, the Artspace has been recognized for excellence in architectural design and visual art programming within the region, since it opened in 1999.

Prior to her time at the Kansas City Art Institute, Smith served as Curatorial Assistant and Education Specialist for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. She was also Project Manager for Electormediascope, a time-based series of contemporary art in new media.